Wednesday's death of a Detroit area Imam who refused to surrender to the FBI was called entrapment by a group of Detroit Muslim leaders who met with the FBI:
Muslim leaders from metro Detroit said at a meeting today with the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office that the shooting death of a Detroit imam was a case of entrapment involving unreliable informants who targeted poor Detroiters.Imam Abdullah El-Amin, head of the Muslim Center of Detroit, said he was one of about 20 imams who attended the 90-minute meeting this afternoon with FBI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Andrew Arean and U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg.
Federal authorities claim that Luqman Ameen Abdullah – shot dead Wednesday by FBI agents during a shootout – was a violent extremist bent on attacking the U.S. government and establishing Islamic rule.
But local Muslims told FBI officials at the meeting today that the criminal complaint reveals a case involving undercover informants who pushed Abdullah and his followers to deal in stolen fur coats, laptop computers and a couple of other minor crimes.
Meanwhile, the FBI arrested the slain Imam's son today.
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Muslim group calls for investigation into imam's death The Detroit News
The Muslim Alliance in North America (MANA website) today released a statement expressing "deep sadness and concern" about the shooting death Wednesday of a Muslim imam during an FBI raid.
Note: Siraj Wahhaj is on the executive committeeof the MANA and is one of the two keynote speakers for CAIR's annual banguet. Joining him will be Jessie Jackson who replaced Dalia Mogehed after she was on an UK Islamic extremist TV show via telephone.
From MANA's press release:
...The National Community or “Ummah” was established by Imam Jamil Al-Amin (formerly known as H. Rap Brown). It is an association of mosques in several cities in the U.S. that coordinates religious and social services primarily in the Black American community. Reference to the “Ummah” as a “nation-wide radical fundamentalist Sunni group consisting primarily of African-Americans” is an offensive mis-characterization...
10/11/09: Black Nationalism Provides Foundation for African-American Islamist Movement by Brendan Goldman is a senior at New York University, majoring in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, and an intern at the Middle East Forum.
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